#jewsofcolor

[progressivejudaism]

I am VERY excited for this new character! 

[rabbisandra]

Let’s do this. #rabbiswholift . . . . . . . . #gymtime #womanwholift #48andfit #gymmotivation #gym #rabbi #rabbis #jewsofcolor #blackandjewish (at LA Fitness)

[loveclickbankstuff]

prilaga.com #waralaba #warcraftart #holocaustmemorial #warcraft #waralabaminuman #jewscanshoot #jewsofcolor #ward # #jews #holocaustmemorialberlin #holocausto #jewsagainstisrael #wardahbeauty #warbler #warbyparker #holocauste #wardahlipcreammatte #war #warattaya #warda #jewsandarabsrefusetobeenemies #holocaust #warcrimes #warangal #warbird #warairarepano #holocaustdenkmal #warbirds #waralabamurah #wardah https://www.instagram.com/p/CO73JInDzf1/?igshid=8iws0hmljry0

[theelitefashiongurusblog]

جب سپین میں چھری اور نیزوں سے ہزاروں بیل ہلاک ہوجاتے ہیں اور اذیت دیتے ہوئے کہتے ہیں ، "یہ توکھیل ہے! اور جب ڈینمارک میں ہر سال سیکڑوں افراد ہزاروں ڈالفن کو قتل کردیتے ہیں. (یہاں تک کہ سمندر کا رنگ سرخ ہوجاتا ہے) وہ کہتے ہیں کہ یہ ایک "تہوار ( مھرجان) ہے! اور جب یہودیوں کا ایک گروہ ہزاروں مرغیوں کو پتھروں پہ ماردیتے ہیں وہ اپنے عقیدے کے مطابق اسی طرح انکے گناہ معاف ہوجاتے ہیں. وہ کہتے ہیں "عقیدہ اور مذہب! اور جب عیسائی بھارتی پرندوں کو ذبح کرتے ہیں نئے سال کے دن اور اسکو وہ اپنا مقبول کھانا کہتے ہیں. لیکن جب مسلمان خدا کے لئے کسی جانور کو قربان کرکے اتنا احتیاط برتے کہ چھری تیز ہو جانور کو چارہ و پانی ڈال کر پھر کوئی اور جانور سامنے نہ ہو اور انکی گوشت دنیا کے مساکین میں تقسیم ہو تو سرخوں اور کفار کے پلے ہوئے سوشل میڈیا پہ نمودار ہوتے ہیں. وجہ یہ ہے کہ اسلام دین حق ہے اور حق سے شیطانوں کو تکلیف ہوتا ہے. #iubofficialpage #iub #iubians #bahawalpuri #bwpnawabs #lahore #iubbwp #eiduladha #qurbani #qurbani2020 #islamic #islamabad #islamabadians #islamabadphotographer #islamabadphotographers #islamabadgram #dangerous #muslims #jewsofcolor #yahodi #nonomuslim #pakistan #multan #lahore #Rawalpindi (at Islamabad, Pakistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJy0Xph4ip/?igshid=gwsmbbkniyo

[lindablatt]

A message from @jewishmultiracialnetwor: . . This Friday night, Shabbat coincides with Juneteenth, the commemoration of the official ending of mass enslavement of African Americans. In observance of this important day, and in remembrance of the countless African Americans who have been victimized and killed by ongoing racism, we are lifting up the suggestion of Black Jewish journalist Robin Washington and we are asking our friends and allies in the Jewish community—Jews of Color and White Jews, Sephardic and Mizrachi and Ashkenazi, religious and secular, in private or on Zoom—to recite a Kaddish for Black Lives during this Shabbat. . . Jewish Multiracial Network has created a special “Black Lives Kaddish” to reflect on this moment. Depending on your practice, you may choose to recite it along with the traditional Kaddish or, after candlelighting, join us in reciting Psalm 31 (traditionally said to ward off hatred) on this special Juneteenth Shabbat. We ask that you share this ask with your networks, friends and contacts throughout the Jewish Community so we may all come together to give appropriate honor to those we have lost. May their memories be a blessing. . . #kaddish #KaddishforBlackLives #becausejewscomeinallcolors #DefendALLBlackLives #AmplifiedMelanatedVoices #Juneteenth #Shabbat #shabbatshalom #jewsofcolor #JOC #whitejews #Ashkenazi #Sephardic #Mizrachi #Secular #Religious #OneLove #spreadlove #UnitedWeStand https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgVZVxBpPJ/?igshid=17zgnw154jubh

[noodlenuts]

Our familiarity with Judaism and its customs tends to revolve, like most things, around what we see ourselves, in English-speaking countries with very particular influences and traditions. But there have been Jews all over the world for thousands of years, speaking myriad languages, developing different local ways of celebrating the holidays. "Hanukkah Around the World" (2009) by Tami Lehman-Wilzig, with illustrations by Vicki Wehrman, delves into some of these traditions, from the Jews of Uzbekistan to those of Australia (where Hanukkah comes in summertime), from the Tunisian Jewish community to that of the Italian Jews. It's a bit text-heavy for very young kids, but an excellent way to introduce school-aged children to some unique Jewish traditions, including yummy recipes!! ��� ⚫ ⚫ #noodlenutsclassickidlit #jewishnoodlenuts #noodlenutschanukah #hanukkaharoundtheworld #tamilehmanwilzig #vickiwehrman #holidaysaroundtheworld #celebrationsaroundtheworld #holidayseason #holidays #culturalheritage #culturearoundtheworld #multicultural #jewsaroundtheworld #jewsofcolor #judaism #jewishholiday #holidayseason #homeschoolmom #jewishbooks #iteachthird #teachersfollowteachers https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BQnVGnBGN/?igshid=ijt3pbt0owyq

[knitgalivey]

#happyhannukah ! #jewsofcolor #judaism #blackjewishgirlinharlem (at at Home In Manhattan)

[jewishmuseummd]

Join us for the final event in our #JewsOfColor series this Sunday (2/28) at 4pm with Lindsey Newman and Dr. Andrew Miller! 

[therealmanishtana-blog]

There may come a day, when I can comment on what I'm about to comment on, and everyone can hear it without getting all in their feelings, but it is not this day. There may come a time, when I can organize my thoughts in such a way that they are not defanged, but still humor white fragility, but it is NOT THIS DAY. Maybe, it'll be tomorrow. In the meantime, for today, here are my thoughts. Everyone these past few days has been all in a tizzy after Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, once again asking the question that reared its head in a panic after Trump's election: "Are Jews white?" Yes, they are, this one says. No, they're not, that one says. They’re not white, but they’re not people of color either, says a third. It’s complicated, says yet another, doing a great impression of a Talmudic daf. Now, I suppose we can pontificate on how the “whiteness” we’re defining that Jews “aren’t”—and that the Irish and Italians “weren’t”—is ahistorical and refers to a stylized, sociological or anthropological understanding of "whiteness" which means either "fully socially accepted as the equals of Americans of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic stock" or, in the more politicized version, "an accepted part of the dominant ruling class in the United States”, and that simultaneously—despite discrimination and even violence—was emblematic of racist hierarchy within the white group, not evidence that these groups weren’t considered to be white. Consider, for example, that anti-miscegenation laws did not apply to any of those groups. Consider that the first Jew of Color recorded in New England was a “Malata Jue” in 1668 Boston named Solomon, likely of slave descent. “Mulatto”, as we all know, was the legal terminology for someone with one black parent and one white parent. Therefore, if his slave half made him "half-black", and he was classified as a "mulatto", then that means his Jewish half…was considered "white". Again, we could go down this line of argument, but David Bernstein, whom I've liberally plagiarized just now, has a pretty good handle on that already.  So yeah. We’re saying Jews aren’t white? Fine. Then show us. Show us that when you’re arguing “Jews aren’t white” that you mean “Jews”. That you’re envisioning “Jews”, not just the ones who look like you, the ones you insist can only “pass” as white. Because as it stands, only Sarah Tuttle-Singer's piece in this recent discourse has bothered to mention that "Jews are a people–in many colors—from deep ebony all the way to alabaster—who can trace their DNA to a little strip of land no bigger than a fingernail. And we are not 'White.'" And that, is a true statement. Jews aren’t white? Then make sure it’s so apparent, that the rainbow of hues that flow through Jewish identity is so prevalent, that no one can question it. All those “Ten Most Beautiful Jewish Women” articles and “Nice Jewish Boy” calendars and Federation videos about the “Jewish future”? Try including a heaping serving of those Jews who you joke “don’t look Jewish” because their skin is browner and their eyes are thinner and their hair is kinkier than yours. For that matter, stop joking that we “don’t look Jewish”, period. I mean, you don’t seem to be too enthralled about that joke when it’s turned on you, either. You say you don’t have white privilege because you lose it when you’re discovered to be Jewish. Fine. So then before you get outed—if you ever do—firstly, acknowledge that you have privilege. Define it as "white privilege", "passing-white privilege", "conditional white privilege","phenotypical white privilege", "Ben & Jerry's Vanilla White Privilege Scoop Surprise" or whatever semantical construct you'd like, no one even really cares. But acknowledge that you have the privilege. Acknowledge that privilege every time you get the urge to blurt out things like “Do you really experience that much racism?” or “I don’t think it’s that bad”. Acknowledge that privilege every time you feel like telling Jews of Color that they are being too sensitive, and remember what that lack of privilege feels like every time you have to defend that anti-Semitism is still a thing, let alone on the rise. Secondly, while you still have that privilege? Use it. Use it while you're in rooms that people who can't "pass" can't stand in, and stand up for them.Use the shit out of it to change things for the better like you’re someone for whom “tikkun olam” is actually your mission here on this Earth, not a sexy little buzzword to toss around. You say you’re not white because of anti-Semitism endured both historically and today. Great. So you’ve been oppressed. So? Christians were thrown to lions by the Romans. Catholics were massacred whenever their monarch was a Protestant and likewise for Protestant when the monarch was a Catholic. Before they eventually merged, the Angles and the Saxons took turns persecuting each other. What does enduring anti-Semitism and the Holocaust mean to you? Are you using it to be more aware of the persecution of others by “whiteness”? Are you using it to ensure it doesn’t devastate others the way it’s victimized you and yours? Or are you using it as some kind of karmic currency giving you a voucher to say or act however you please (y’know, like how you say black people do)? Are you aware that being and having been persecuted has no bearing on being racist, discriminatory, or any of the other hallmarks of the ideology of “whiteness”? Being a persecuted minority didn’t stop Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of Charleston, South Carolina from discriminating against people of color in Rule No. 23 of their 1820 Constitution (emphasis mine): "This congregation shall not encourage or interfere with making proselytes under any pretense whatever, nor shall any such be admitted under the jurisdiction of their congregation, until he or she or they produce legal and satisfactory credentials, from some other congregation, where a regular Chief or Rabbi and Hebrew Consistory is established; and, provided, he, she, or they are not people of color." Nor did it prevent Congregation Shaarei Chesed of New Orleans from identifying as white in 1828 in Act No. 84 of the Louisiana State Legislature (emphasis mine): "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in Gene[r]al Assembly convened, [t]hat Manis Jacobs, Aaron [Daniels], Isaac Philips, Plautz, S.S. Solis, Bernard [J]unior, Souza [S]enior, and all other white Israelit[e]s living in this City, who may desire to form a society, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and title of "Shananreen Shosset of the Congregation of Israelites of New-Orleans". Surviving the Holocaust didn’t stop European-descended, newly-minted Israelis from kidnapping Mizrahi and Yemenite babies in the 50’s, and it doesn’t stop sabras from discriminating against Yemenites and Ethiopians today . Being victims of anti-Semitism certainly didn’t keep death threats from being issued to Rabbi Alysa Stanton, the first African-American woman ordained as a rabbi, requiring a police escort the day she was installed as rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, NC in 2009. And that none of that stops any Jew from claiming every bit of the old racist white guy trope. Except for, apparently, the “white” part. Don't tell us about genetics and really being Levantine, because for every study "proving"Ashkenazi Jews are Middle Eastern descended, there's another equally "proving" that Ashkenazi Jews have 80% European maternal ancestral DNA. Science will "prove" whatever someone's using it to "prove". And regardless of the amount of Levantine DNA in either direction, Ashkenazi Jews identify black Jews with Levantine DNA as "black", Asian Jews with Levantine DNA as "Asian", Indian Jews with Levantine DNA as "Indian", and so on and so forth. Of course, if there were an easy answer to this question it would either be so obvious that it wouldn’t need to be debated or it would be ignored by people who didn’t want to accept it anyway. So let’s just stop debating if Jews are white or not. Show us. Show us. Show us you publishing Jewish children's books where the kids come in a lot more than peach. Show us your synagogues that are so welcoming that your pews look like rainbows. Show us you standing up in country clubs and VIP sections where those off-color jokes get told and discriminatory practices fester, declaring that you are not white, in those words, not the relative cop-out of "I'm Jewish". Show us you rejecting the ideologies of whiteness like colorism, prejudice, discrimination, and racism with the same alacrity and disgust as I hand back an organic kale quiche to Becky. [[White] Ashkenazi] Jews aren't white? Aight bet. Great. Go for it. We (brown Sefardim/Mizrachim/Yemenites, Jews of Color, ethnic Ashkenazim of color, non-Jewish non-white minorities, non-Jewish whites, even self-defined "white" Ashkenazim) are watching. Show us.

[realestlivingbeco-blog]

Taking in more #art at @jewseum! #jewseum #travel #shortvacay #architecture #sanfrancisco #architecturelovers #california #artlovers #lazyafternoon #californiaadventure #greatdesign #travelnoire #jewsofcolor #arttherapy #liveforart #realestlivingbeco (at Contemporary Jewish Museum)

[xubunik]

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.” ― Dejan Stojanovic #xubunik #centralsynagogue #joy #spirituality #jewsofcolor #nyc

[rabbisandra]

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[daemoniatweets]

Yes, I'm Chicana and Jewish. Stop acting like we don't exist! #JewsOfColor #RiseUp 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇮🇱

Yes, I'm Chicana and Jewish. Stop acting like we don't exist! #JewsOfColor #RiseUp 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇮🇱

Yes, I'm Chicana and Jewish. Stop acting like we don't exist! #JewsOfColor #RiseUp 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇮🇱

— Daemonia (@DaemoniaSaves) August 13, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/DaemoniaSaves http://twitter.com/DaemoniaSaves/status/1161282512687128576

[lindablatt]

#Repost @jewishmultiracialnetwork with @repostapp ・・・ Today for #BlackHistoryMonth we would like to introduce you to April Baskin. April Baskin (left) is the Union for Reform Judaism's Vice President of Audacious Hospitality. Previously she served as the national Director of Resources and Training at InterfaithFamily.com and the immediate past President of the Jewish Multiracial Network. When interviewed by the Forward about her role at the URJ, Baskin said, "she wants to zero in on categories of unaffiliated Jews whom she calls “seekers” and “roamers.” The former, she says, are Jews who are not currently engaged in Jewish life, are at a point where they are seeking one, but haven’t found an entry point.” The latter may not be looking for anything Jewish “but if they were to be approached with something meaningful and relevant in their lives”. Image and Bio from: Haaretz and the Jewish Forward. #JewishDiversity #JewishDiversityAwareness #JewsComeinAllColors #JewsofColor #multiracialJews #MultiracialJewishFamilies #thisiswhatjewishlookslike #BlackandJewish #JewishWomen

[jewishmuseummd]

Have you registered for the 2nd program in our #JewsOfColor,  Jewish Institutions, and Jewish Community in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter partner series yet? 

Join Eric Goldstein & Tracie Guy-Decker Sunday, 11/8 for "The Consequences of Acceptance: From the 'Jewish Race' to White Privilege.' #Free

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